[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 190] Setup Gitlab CI Runner for Kazan on a computer

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190

--- Comment #59 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
(In reply to Jacob Lifshay from comment #58)
> I added a uart_demo.py that programs the FPGA with a simple transmit-only
> UART that's connected to all UART TX pins defined by the platform and
> transmits some text in a repeating loop. The default text is "Hello
> World!\n" and the default baud rate is 9600.

ooo, that's worthwhile adding to nmigen in the same directory as
blinky (in the same style: generic code separated from platform)

> The reason I wrote the simple UART is so we have something to test that the
> FPGA on gitlab-ci works without needing to build a whole soft-cpu that could
> easily be broken by someone while their working on it...

no great idea

> uart_demo.py is unlikely to break.

yeah totally get it.

> I'll add code that reads from the serial port from inside the docker
> container and checks that it got the right text and didn't time-out...at
> that point, I can declare the FPGA to be officially working on
> gitlab-ci...I'll wire up the hyperram later.

components face-up.

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